The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-13
MARLBOROUGH MAKES A MEst.
The Duke Strikes Back The Press WIFI
Prose and Verse.


The Duke Strikes Back mt The Press With
Prose and Verse.
Newport Or. ID Special.
The Duke of MARLBOROUGH has bad advisers
as will be seen by the following memorandum
partly in prose and partly in verse, which 10
issued this evening:
1T is not improbabi that shall collect a few
of the best reported specimens of the gutter ga
zettes of this country, and have the same
framed for tho edifcation or benefit of the ], 900
or more American tourists who are kind enough
TO honor my country house in England every
year with a visit. These treasures of journalism
will serve to remind Americans of one of the
most admirable and respectable institutions of
their country, while they evil also suggest to
them the reflection that the American eagle in
his flights of mendacity finds. indeed, such facts
to multiply with such rapidity of vice aud guilt,
THAT he has torn off both his wings in quilts
And yet is in arrear of human ills,
Regarding strangers. while he calmly ignores
The vices which lie patent at his own doors
MARLBOROUGH"
The Duke has been the social lion of the week.
and has dned out every night this week. This
evening he took a long stroll on Bellevue ave.
nue. with Miss Beckwth, daughter of Col. N. Nj.
Beckwith. of New York. He will leave Mon
day for Boston, but will return
1t is stated on the best authority that Mrs.
Paran Stevens will close her villa on Monday on
account of the newspapers comment made
about her and her guest. The Daily News OF this
evening remarks:
1T will to many that the newspapers
are a little too severe Newport for the part
played by certain summer residents in connec-
ton with the Duke of Marlborough. The whole
country appears to be In an uproar over what is
regarded as a great scandal, and one paper goes
so far as to say: There is no state of moral
turpitude yet reached by a human being low
that Newport society will not embrace it,provid-
ed it is glamoured by q title Such talk as that
is rather rough on Newport society, to say the
least, but while it is apparently true of certain
individuals. it is not true of many of most
prominent families. The Duke has certainly
had hard time of it through the mistaken zeal
of those who thought to do him an honor above
his recognized merits. Had he been allowed to
have passed his time here In comparative quiet
he might have escaped the evil notorety forced
upon him by his indiscreet friends who insisted
upon pushing him to the front"
The Season; society sheet printed during
the season. SAYS
''Mrs Stevens. as woman Of mature years
and good understanding, has an unqualified
right to have as her guest anybody whom she
desires, and no could properly say word.
bnt when she starts out to make social lion of
the Duke of Marlborough and to obtain general
recognition for him, she makes great mistake
Her greatest mistake, we Think when,
knowing the stir which the Dukes arrival has
caused she got up that little parade of Satur-
day of last week with Thakore in his native rig
and Marlborough as the leading cards. II has
been said by papers abroad that this def
ance the part of Mrs. Stevens, but do not
believe it. We maintain, however, that it was
a mistake.
1T is stated in Boston paper that Mrs Ste
vens has said that the sanctity of the home in
Newport has been invaded by reporters of this
city. If Mrs Stevens has said such thing
should like to ask her whether any newspaper
man in this town has, in her calm, unbiased
judgment wrought much injury upon society
by his mode of invading the sanctity Of Newport
homes as it is alleged his Grace, the Duke Of
Marlborough, has accomplished by his method
of invading the sanctity of English homes. We
believe that. had the Duke of Marlborough fol-
lowed the course of Sir Charles Dixie and taken
his banishment phiosophcaily and gone off
travelling several years, and meanwhile
lived life that would commend
itself to thinking people, and in that way
had done all that was possible to atone for
past misconduct, he could not have failed to win
the admiration Of old friends and well wishers.
We speak now of friends in the best sense and
he would have merited the forgiveness of society.
But the Duke does not so, and upon the princi-
pie that he has right to 60 where he pleases so
long as he pays his bills he heads for America.
Why did he come here2 Did he believe that our
code of morals is any less strict than that the
other side of the Atlantic2 II the answer to- the
latter before he reached America were affirm
alive one we think he would qualify it some what
now. But thas is not the point. We deeply
regret that the Duke of Marlborough did NOT
remain the other side of the Atlantic